Zantani, Omnium Caesarum verissimae imagines, Venice, [Paolo Manuzio, for] Enea Vico, 1554, early limp vellum

Zantani, Antonio. Omnium Caesarum verissimae imagines ex antiquis numismatis desumptae. Addita per breui cuiusque vitae descriptione ac diligenti eorum, quae reperiri potuerunt numismatum auersae partis delineatione. Libri primi. Editio altera. Venice: [Paolo Manuzio, for] Enea Vico, 1554

Second Latin edition.

4to (210 x 156 mm). Roman type, 40 lines plus headline. collation: [1]⁸ [2]⁶ [3]⁴ [4]⁶ [5]⁸ [6]⁶ [7]⁶ [8]⁸ [9]⁶ [10]⁶ [11]⁶ [12]⁴ A-D⁴: 77 leaves (of 90, lacking 13 unsigned leaves). Engraved title-page within an architectural border, engraved illustrations of cartouches, coins, and medals by Enea Vico, 4 cancellans on ff. 58r-59r and 60v-61r, historiated woodcut initials, 16 ff. index at end. (Title and first few leaves wormed and repaired, scattered staining and soiling, a few minor edge tears or torn corners.)

binding: Early limp vellum (221 x 161 mm), traces of two pairs of ties, flat spine, new endpapers, title on tail-edge. (Textblock loose in binding, covers slightly wrinkled and soiled, a few wormholes to spine and endpapers.)

provenance: Ercole Bottrigari (1531–1612), inscription "Io Cav. Hercole Bottrigigari(?) possiedo questo libro di medaglie delle qualli son studioso" on verso of title-page — Bartolomeo Bonifiglioli, inscription dated 1625 on f.4 — Catalogus bibliothecae Bonfiliolae quae perstat Bononiae (Faenza 1735), p. 117 ("Enea Vico, Omnium Caesarum verissimae Imagines ex Antiquis Numismatibus desumptae — Liber I. — Venetiis 1554") — unidentified owner, ex libris "A. Donati" (20^th century). acquisition: Purchased from Bottega Apulja, Bari, 1972. reference: UCLA 475; Renouard 164/25; Edit16 27838; USTC 863200